Tim Keller | April 19, 2015
We’re looking at the life of David, and today we get to a text that actually gets us to address one of the most urgent and important questions you could ask: what’s wrong with the human race? The problem is we know how we should live, and we aren’t able to do it. Why do we do the terrible things we do when we basically know how we should live? One answer is in this passage from 1 Samuel. It’s not the only answer, but it’s an extremely important one. It’s a small but important subject I want to bring to your attention. To get at it, let’s ask these questions: How did Saul fail? Why did Saul fail? How can we escape the thing that destroyed him?
This Month's Featured Book
In his book, Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, Tim Keller looks at the problem of pain and suffering through a biblical lens as he works through the challenge of one of life’s most difficult questions: Why does God allow so much pain and suffering?